so I did an unboxing a while back of the Kingston SSD now v+ 180 this is a 64 gig
solid state drive and one of the things I pointed out was quite special about it
is the fact that it's really small so if we compare it to a normal SSD that is a
2 and 1/2 in SSD well it's very small
and I also noted in my unboxing that it uses a standard that I'm not familiar
with for its SATA connection so this is
called oh shoot I totally forgot microa yes excellent and I grabbed this cable
just so that I could show you guys if you ever need to pull data off a 1.8 in
SATA drive and you want or you wanted to let's say you randomly had a 1.8 in SATA
drive like say for example me and you wanted to be able to test it on a
desktop or or Benchmark it or do whatever else it is you need to do you
need to get one of these so right here is the micro SATA interface that is
power and data so I'm going to go ahead and plug that
in just like that okay and then what you have to do is you
have to take a regular SATA plug off your power supply and plug it into the
power so we have now powered up the drive okay no notable status change
after you power the drive uh because it is an SSD and it doesn't make any noise
and then finally you need to oops if it doesn't slip under your test bench you
need to plug the SATA connector into the motherboard all right and hopefully oh
yeah that was fast look at that so we've already got it ready to use
and oh right we have to actually
uh oh I always forget the most efficient
way to do this computer manage dis
management there we go here I am fumbling around some tech
tip okay so we are going to initialize the dis and then we are going to make a
new simple volume assign it to drive letter X for extreme
and then we can view the file so it was that
simple that's all we had to do I kind of
wish I had some uh files to copy to it or something but we can do that later
anyway that is what is involved in adapting a micro SATA drive such as the
Kingston SSD now v+ 180 to a regular
SATA power and data interface don't
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